[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] mini-dinstall: Successfully installed icedove-3.0 3.0~rc2-1 to sid

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:23:51PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:33:07PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:11:55PM +0000, Mini-Dinstall wrote:
> > > Package: icedove-3.0
> > > Maintainer: Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
> > > Changed-By: Christoph Goehre <christoph.goehre at gmx.de>
> > > Architecture: source amd64
> > > Changes:
> > >   [ Christoph Goehre ]
> > >   * New Upstream Version (RC2)
> > >     - fixes 494014, 516950, 531278, 531502 in Mozilla Bugzilla
> > >   * [fc3fa5c] Revert "mark icedove-3.0-dev as transitional package for
> > >     xulrunner-dev"
> > 
> > Please change the package names to not include the version number
> > (and probably likewise for the directory name, too)
> The idea is to have icedove-3 and icedove co installable for some time.

I don't think this is a good thing, for several reasons:
- There are good chances that icedove 2 and icedove 3 can't share a
  profile (i.e. running icedove 2 after icedove 3 may either not work
  properly, or worse, do bad things)
- It doesn't allow for a smooth upgrade
- We are 3 months from freeze, it's really time to get icedove 3 in, and
  test upgrade paths, because we'll definitely *not* be releasing with
  icedove 2: we can't support it for more years.

> > Please also consider merging the -gnome-support package (see iceape).
> This makes sense although icedove itself then pulls in more of the gnome
> libraries. Die you check the actual difference for iceape?

Iceape uses recommends for the gnome libraries, instead of dependencies.

> > Finally, could you join the pkg-mozilla team and mailing list, so that
> > icedove maintenance can be discussed where it should belong ?
> Done.

Ccing the pkg-mozilla team list, then. Feel free to drop the
mozext-maint list in your reply.

Cheers,

Mike